Comment This Book is great! Glad its back in print (Score 1) 10
I was turned on to it by a mention in "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" by Ted Nelson.
I thought when I took programming courses in college that TPOCP would be a core text, but no such luck.
The profs must not have thought psychology was relevant to software devlopment.
Or maybe (irony alert) they thought teaching the concepts in TPOCP was a waste of time.
Now that I am out in the real world, I find that very few computer "professionals" and even fewer manager types have even heard of TPOCP.
That's a shame because it contains ideas that, if taken to heart, usually lead to faster development, better code and fewer bruised egos.
I have been shocked to see local libraries and used book stores selling copies of TPOCP for $.10 or throwing/giving it away.
I scarf them up and give them away to friends and anyone who complains about the difficulty of collaboration with others.
Hurray for the publisher that decided to take a chance and put TPOCP back into print.
Now if I could just get the guy in the next cube to read it...
I thought when I took programming courses in college that TPOCP would be a core text, but no such luck.
The profs must not have thought psychology was relevant to software devlopment.
Or maybe (irony alert) they thought teaching the concepts in TPOCP was a waste of time.
Now that I am out in the real world, I find that very few computer "professionals" and even fewer manager types have even heard of TPOCP.
That's a shame because it contains ideas that, if taken to heart, usually lead to faster development, better code and fewer bruised egos.
I have been shocked to see local libraries and used book stores selling copies of TPOCP for $.10 or throwing/giving it away.
I scarf them up and give them away to friends and anyone who complains about the difficulty of collaboration with others.
Hurray for the publisher that decided to take a chance and put TPOCP back into print.
Now if I could just get the guy in the next cube to read it...
